Use case

Reducing Cybersecurity Risks During M&A

Overview

Mergers and acquisitions bring significant cybersecurity risk. Organizations inherit unknown infrastructure, unmanaged assets and undiscovered vulnerabilities, often with no visibility of what has been acquired until long after the transaction has completed.

Traditional due diligence relies on questionnaires, static assessments and self-reported information. None of these describe what an attacker can actually reach and exploit across the target’s external attack surface.

The Role of the watchTowr Platform in M&A

01

Mapping the Entire Attack Surface

Adversary Sight reconstructs the target’s external estate from a domain: subsidiaries, shadow IT, forgotten cloud and inherited infrastructure that no asset list holds.

02

Identify Exploitable Vulnerabilities

Rather than reporting theoretical weaknesses, the Platform identifies vulnerabilities that are genuinely exploitable, giving acquiring organizations an accurate view of real risk.

03

Replacing Static Assessments With Real-Time Insights

Point-in-time assessments age immediately. The watchTowr Platform provides continuous, real-time insight into the target’s exposure throughout the transaction.

04

Carrying the Answer Through Integration

The same loop keeps running once the deal closes, so the newly combined estate is re-validated as it changes rather than reassessed months later.

Key Solution Benefits

Comprehensive Remediation Support

Findings are delivered with the context and detail required to remediate, so acquired exposure can be planned, prioritized and closed.

Enhanced Exposure Understanding

Acquiring organizations gain a clear understanding of the exposure they are inheriting, across the target’s full external estate.

Proactive Risk Identification

Exposure is surfaced and proven before it is inherited, so risk is priced into the transaction rather than discovered after it closes.

Easy, Zero-Install Deployment

The watchTowr Platform installs nothing, requiring no deployment within the target environment and no infrastructure changes.

The watchTowr Platform

What Runs Against the Combined Estate.

Zero install throughout. There is no appliance to deploy inside a business you do not yet control, and no operational disruption during integration.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Attack Surface Visibility

Understand the full external surface an attacker had available, during and after an incident.

Continuous

Continuous Security Testing

Validates which of the inherited weaknesses are actually exploitable, so remediation spend maps to real risk reduction.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Emerging Threat Rapid Reaction

Re-checks the newly combined estate whenever a threat emerges, because the integration window is when you can least afford to wait.

Deployed in the world's most targeted industries

Technology

Banking

Government

Telecoms

Insurance

Healthcare

Crypto

Transport

Fintech

Manufacturing

Critical Infrastructure

Technology

Banking

Government

Telecoms

Insurance

Healthcare

Crypto

Transport

Fintech

Manufacturing

Critical Infrastructure

Assess a Target’s Attack Surface Before You Inherit It.

Fully external with nothing installed. We need a domain, not access to their infrastructure.

Other Use Cases

Use case

Understand the full external surface an attacker had available, during and after an incident.

Use case

React to emerging and in-the-wild threats in hours, not weeks.
Attackers Don't Give Up. Neither Should Your Security Testing.

Zero install. No infrastructure changes. Uplift your security posture within hours of onboarding the watchTowr Platform.

Find Out What an Attacker Can Reach Before They Do.

Point us at a domain. We reconstruct your real external estate and come back with validated exposure, not a theoretical CVE list.

Disclosure to Exploitation Is Four Hours. Patching Is Not.

The watchTowr Platform validates your exposure to an emerging threat and mitigates it at the edge while the vendor patch is still in testing.

We Find the Vulnerabilities. You Hear It From Us First.

watchTowr Labs publishes what is being exploited right now and whether it touches your estate, not vendor summaries written a week late.

Your Exposure Changes Weekly. Annual Testing Cannot Describe It.

Continuous, fully external validation of what an attacker can actually exploit against your estate, at a 0.01% false-positive rate.

See the Estate You Own, Including What No Asset List Holds.

Subsidiaries, forgotten infrastructure, shadow IT. We rebuild your external surface from a single domain, then validate what is exposed.